Rescue workers were still searching the rubble after the strike in the village of Almat, in the Jbeil district of Lebanon.

Israel began a ground invasion of south Lebanon on October 1, causing wide destruction in border villages but making little advances on the ground inside Lebanon. Israel claims that it is destroying Hezbollah weapons and command centers near the border.

At least one Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in a beach town south of Beirut on Tuesday, Lebanese state media said, as other deadly strikes hit scattered locations across the country and armed group Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel.

American businessman and aide to president-elect Donald Trump, said he would take over the indirect negotiations between Israel and Hezbollah to end the war in Lebanon.

An Israeli airstrike on the southern port city of Tyre left at least seven dead, among them five siblings, three of whom were deaf and mute, officials and a resident said Saturday. The rise in Tyre’s death toll came as Israel’s air force carried out airstrikes on different parts of southern and eastern Lebanon Saturday hours after Beirut’s southern suburbs were pounded by jets,

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 20 people including three children in the village of Almat, north of the capital Beirut."The Israeli enemy strike on Almat in the Jbeil district killed 20 people including three children and injured six,